A national nonprofit that runs an after-school program in seven U.S. cities is shaking things up in the field through its unique youth-development model. The All Stars Project (ASP) is also working to ...

Australia is taking its first brisk steps toward conversion to a fully metric system of weights and measures over the next 10 years…. The arguments for conversion to metric in Australia have been ...

The U.S. Metric Program may be the loneliest office in Washington. Located about 30 minutes from the White House, its headquarters is in the much larger—and better funded—“measurement standards ...

We Americans measure things our own way. Our yardsticks are marked in feet and inches, measures that are unfathomable to foreigners, nearly all of whom have been brought up in a decimals-only ...

In 1975, the United States passed the Metric Conversion Act. The legislation was meant to slowly transition its units of measurement from feet and pounds to meters and kilograms, bringing the US up to ...

Metric5, a member of the Octo Metric Joint Venture (JV) with Octo, will provide applications development, life cycle management, and operations support for the U.S. Treasury. ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)- ...